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WHAT I DO

Five areas where I help. Click for details.

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Process Mining & Process Digitalisation

I analyse processes, create clarity from the chaos, then implement a digital solution. From AI chatbots for customer enquiries to onboarding workflows to fully automated sales processes.

Process MiningAnalysisDigitalisationAutomation
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Project & Dev Lead

I run your tech project, from the first requirement to finished delivery. With your team or with experts from my network.

ScrumTech LeadProject ManagementTeam Leadership
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Data Analysis & Detective

Not dashboards — the interesting cases: money that has gone missing, patterns no one can explain, questions that need a fast answer. For the love of the game.

Data AnalysisResearchInvestigations
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Speaker & Educator

Workshops, talks, and articles on AI in organisations, software development, and what technology does to us.

TalksWorkshopsAIPhilosophy of Tech
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IT Project Procurement Advisory

You wouldn't build a house without a structural engineer — don't buy an IT project without an advisor who knows what you're actually purchasing.

Vendor SelectionQuality AssuranceConsultingIT Procurement
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Process Mining & Process Digitalisation

The domain experts are already in your organisation — they do the work every day and know it inside out. What is missing from the outside is the methodical perspective that sees what you can no longer see from the inside: where work is duplicated, where knowledge lives in people's heads rather than systems, where steps are done manually every day that software could take over.

Together we look at how work actually flows in your organisation, which steps create value and which simply happen because they always have. From this comes an optimised process that I implement as a digital solution: from AI chatbots for customer enquiries to automated onboarding workflows to fully digitalised sales processes.

Larger engagements

If we determine during the analysis phase that the project is too large or the deadlines too tight for a one-man show, I coordinate designers, developers, and domain experts from my network and run delivery as your project manager.

A few projects from practice — what this looked like concretely:

2025 — present Lead Developer Confidential Client

Built an automated email processing system that reads incoming sales emails, extracts the relevant data, and pushes it directly into the client's ERP — no manual entry.

2024 — 2025 Software Engineer Wovar · via Stekz

Designed and built a warehouse automation system for a large e-commerce fulfilment operation — replacing hundreds of manual steps with a connected, cyber-physical workflow.

2020 — 2022 Lead Developer Fuhrparkhelden GmbH

First technical hire at a mobility start-up — built the invoice automation tooling and set up the entire production infrastructure from scratch.

Project & Dev Lead

I take ownership of your tech project — from planning to finished product. In practice that means: sharpening requirements together, turning them into sprint tasks the team actually understands, running plannings and reviews, and making sure decisions get made instead of deferred.

I work with Scrum — but I know the difference between textbook Scrum and what actually works in practice. Working with me means no extra translation layer between business and engineering. That's me.

A few projects I managed this way:

2026 — present Project Manager Stekz

Running multiple digitisation projects in parallel — keeping clients informed, dev teams unblocked, and deliverables on track.

2024 — present Lead Developer Absolute Motors Group · via Stekz

Digitised core business operations for a vehicle trading group — connecting previously isolated systems and building out their e-commerce presence.

2022 — 2024 Head of IT & Software Development FPH Holding GmbH

Took over a legacy Python monolith, rebuilt it as containerised microservices, and got the company to EU GDPR and BSI IT-Grundschutz compliance — which unlocked a major contract.

Data Analysis & Detective

There are better people for BI dashboards. I take on the cases where someone is genuinely stuck: money that has gone missing, patterns no one can explain, questions that need a fast answer. An example: a warehouse client needs to order new boxes in three days — which sizes did they use most over the past year and which were most efficient? An afternoon of data analysis, a clear answer. I do this for the challenge, not as a standard service.

Speaker & Educator

I run trainings, workshops, and talks — depending on what is needed. For employees: how to use AI tools like ChatGPT effectively, where the limits are, and which risks to know — practical and without jargon. For leaders: workshops that convey how technology changes decisions, teams, and organisations. And for conferences and larger events I speak about the deeper question of what technology does to us and what we can consciously do with it. What I have written recently is below.

The AI Coding Revolution: From Developer to Domain Modeller

2026

The AI Coding Revolution: From Developer to Domain Modeller

AI tools make us faster, but they generate architectural complexities at lightspeed. Developers must now become domain modellers to stop invisible tech debt from toppling the foundation.

Vibe Coding and the Domain Layer: Why Founders Are Getting It Half Right

2026

Vibe Coding and the Domain Layer: Why Founders Are Getting It Half Right

Meeting with founders building AI-assisted products reveals a pattern: they're surprisingly good modern developers, but they keep hitting the same wall. The complexity didn't disappear — it just moved.

Automating Myself: From Customer Intent to Information System

2025

Automating Myself: From Customer Intent to Information System

Are we in the middle of an AI coding revolution? I put it to the test at #aiGrunn.

ReCombined: Reuse and Combination of Existing Internet Measurement Data

2023

ReCombined: Reuse and Combination of Existing Internet Measurement Data

Research investigating methodical approaches to combining multiple Internet measurement datasets for enhanced insights.

Killer Robots: Chain of Responsibility

2021

Killer Robots: Chain of Responsibility

Examining responsibility and accountability frameworks for autonomous weapon systems in light of their deployment against humans.

Trust and Machine Learning Justice Systems

2021

Trust and Machine Learning Justice Systems

Investigating ethical and technical challenges of machine learning systems in justice domains and identifying conditions for justifiable trust.

IT Project Procurement Advisory

When you build a house, you bring in a structural engineer to check that what is being built actually matches what was ordered. Almost no one does this for IT procurement, even though the mistakes here are just as expensive. The wrong vendor, a poorly negotiated contract, requirements no one wrote down properly — that quickly costs six figures and months of delay. I guide you through these decisions: formulating requirements, dissecting proposals, asking vendors the right questions, reviewing contracts for hidden risks. Not as someone who says "I told you so" afterwards, but as someone who makes sure it never gets that far.

TRUSTED BY

WOVAR B.V. GP PRODUCTS B.V. FUHRPARKHELDEN GMBH FPH HOLDING GMBH ABSOLUTE MOTORS GROUP STEKZ

What people say

Izah Bloemhof
Izah Bloemhof IT Manager, Wovar B.V.

"Valentin helped us digitize our warehouse operations and improve efficiency. He is a great problem solver and has a deep understanding of the challenges we faced."

Roy Jacobs
Roy Jacobs Business Development Manager, GP Products B.V.

"I truly enjoyed working together with Valentin and am very proud of what we achieved. His deep knowledge of data engineering and software development played a crucial role in building our digital backbone."

Marcel Wirtz
Marcel Wirtz Founder, Fuhrparkhelden GmbH

"Valentin is a great partner to work with. He is a quick learner and helped us understand and digitize our business processes."